Introducing Spectrum Summer Edition

Dear all undergraduate writers and artists at UCSB,

For the first time, Spectrum is publishing an edition composed solely of work by UCSB’s students, and as such, I heartily invite you to send us your creations between now and August 20, 2021 to be considered for Spectrum’s Summer Edition! We will review your work and send out decisions at the end of the month, with publication planned for mid-September, 2021.

And, we do mean that we want you! No matter your major, no matter if you’ve won awards or never shared your words, we want to read (or see) your work! Submit us your best work, but don’t shy away even if you don’t think that your work is “the best.”

For this fresh and new summer edition, we’re also welcoming a wider variety of submissions: as always, send us your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art, but also send us your scripts, your hybrid work, your multimedia, your comics, your dance, anything—if think we might like it, send it! We want to capture the full spectrum of creative expression, and will review everything you submit, so long as it meets our basic guidelines.

Don’t feel restricted by format, either—though Spectrum is traditionally a printed journal, this summer edition will instead be published online, on this very website, so we welcome works which might not conform to the page, or be static, at all. If still in doubt, feel free to email us!

Learn more and submit here. 

Then, after you’ve submitted that, make sure to spread the word! Send our submission form to all of your UCSB friends, for us—we can only reach so far, but with your help, we hope to find and reach all of UCSB who has to offer, to reach a full spectrum of us.

— Kat Yuen, Editor-in-Chief